Research the stars in books, specialist magazines or the internet so you can look out for different constellations.

Go out in your garden on a clear night, lie back and look up at the sky and see what you can spot.

A pair of 10x50 binoculars will give you 10 times magnification and capture more light than the naked eye. They will allow you to see Jupiter as a small disc and the small rings of Saturn plus many other things.

A basic telescope will make stars clearer but there’s a narrow field of view which can be frustrating. The stars are fixed in space and the Earth rotates on its axis, so when you’re looking at the stars they appear to move. With a telescope, that movement is exaggerated because it magnifies the view so it magnifies the speed they appear to move. They can drift through your field of vision quickly so you have to keep nudging the telescope.

Eventually you might want to invest in a motorised telescope that moves automatically.

Experiment with taking photos of the night sky using a camera on a tripod and a very long exposure of around 30 seconds.